Emma Appleton Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Victoria, Australia

Leading the unit responsible for project and pipeline development for the Big Housing Build, including securing social and affordable housing on Homes Victoria or other Government land, in precincts and growth areas; master planning and design strategy for Homes Victoria and facilitating development applications through Streamlined Planning processes.

• The City Strategy branch set the strategic and future direction for the recovery and growth of Central Melbourne, across transport, affordable housing and heritage; urban design, strategic planning and implementation.
• Council endorsement of major city-shaping strategies: Transport Strategy 2030, Affordable Housing Strategy 2030, Design Excellence Program (draft) and the Yarra River Birrarung Strategy.
• Delivering award winning strategic plans and policies: West Melbourne Structure Plan, Maribyrnong Waterfront; Sustainable Building Design Amendment, and the Central City Urban Design Guide.
• Supporting the branch to maintain productivity, collaboration and well-being while remote working,
• Contribution to the COVID 19 Reactivation and Recovery Plan for the City.
• Successfully progressing Planning Scheme Amendments through exhibition and panel.

Melbourne

• Branches included Aboriginal Melbourne, Climate Change Action, City Strategy, Planning Building, and Resilience. Key achievements included:
• Delivering organisational outcomes, working with Councillors, and leading the Division.
• Transitioning the division to a refreshed organisational structure with a new Divisional Leadership Team.
• Championing the operational planning and culture change process.
• Contributing confidently as an Executive Leadership Team member on… Show more Branches included Aboriginal Melbourne, Climate Change Action, City Strategy, Planning Building, and Resilience. Key achievements included:
• Contributing confidently as an Executive Leadership Team member on whole-of-organisation matters and specific projects.

Melbourne, Australia

The Victorian Design Review Panel is an independent and expert design review process that provides constructive, independent and expert design advice to significant State Government projects. As Director of a pilot program, I worked with a small professional team and highly expert industry panel to establish a successful design review process for Victoria..

Melbourne, Australia

At VicUrban, I led the centre of expertise for design, negotiating high quality outcomes for VicUrban’s regeneration projects: Melbourne Docklands, Revitalising Central Dandenong (RCD) and the Maribyrnong Defence Site (MDS). I was part of the Strategic Management Team of the organisation and Divisional Management Team for Project Planning.

London, United Kingdom

• The enabling program at CABE offered direct support to public sector clients of masterplanning and building projects to ensure high quality design and development. As Head of the enabling programme, I worked with a.
• The delivery of the Design Task Group, a bi-monthly… Show more The enabling program at CABE offered direct support to public sector clients of masterplanning and building projects to ensure high quality design and.
• The delivery of the Design Task Group, a bi-monthly forum for key design representatives from Local Authorities to share best practice around issues of design, heritage and sustainability (2003 - 2008)
• Joint author of ‘Creating Successful Neighbourhoods: Lessons and Actions from Housing Market Renewal’ and contributor to ‘Creating Successful Masterplans – A Guide for Clients’.
• Initiator and lead for CABE’s inaugural overseas study tour. The ‘seeing is believing’ tour took 100 public sector clients to the ‘Emscher landscape park’ in Germany to witness how a creative strategic approach enabled.
• Initiator of a research project on ‘strategic urban design’, a project to define a methodology for adopting a creative spatial approach to large-scale urban change.

London, United Kingdom

See above

Glasgow

Working directly with the Urban Design Partner, I coordinated and contributed to a number of significant masterplans and public realm projects throughout England and Scotland, including Sheffield City Centre Urban Design Compendium, Aberdeen Urban Realm Strategy (with Gehl Architects), Castle Street, Edinburgh, North Ormesby Masterplan, Lanarkshire Town.

Sunshine Coast, Queensland

I formulated and implemented Council policy on landscape and urban design issues and provided specialist advice to Councillors, developers, staff and the community. I managed the delivery of a major streetscape project on site in Montville.

Masters Urban Design, Urban Design, Distinction

Graduate Diploma In Landscape Architecture, Design, Distinction

Bachelor Of Design Studies In Architecture, Architecture

Architecture

Executive Ethics